Rest assured about PRISM: Bush says he 'put that program in place to protect the country'

[Katashi_itto]

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Worried about that whole NSA spying thing, and the loss of personal privacy, and our allies being seriously pissed? Rest assured:
Former President George W. Bush defended PRISM, the Internet spying program that began under his administration but remained secret until The Washington Post and The Guardian revealed its existence last month.
"I put that program in place to protect the country. One of the certainties was that civil liberties were guaranteed," Bush told CNN in an interview airing Monday. "I think there needs to be a balance, and as the president explained, there is a proper balance."

PRISM began under Bush in 2007 and has continued under the Obama administration. The program allows the National Security Administration to collect internet and email data from the nation's biggest technology companies.

Yes. Because if anyone is an expert at protecting the country, it's Bush. And that little war in Iraq was to protect us from Saddam's WMDs. And don't worry about PRISM, because civil liberties are guaranteed.

Feel better now? Feel safer?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/02/1220620/-Rest-assured-about-PRISM-Bush-put-that-program-in-place-to-protect-the-country

[pscot]

1. Oh. Well, that's all right then

[Katashi_itto]

3. Exactly

[Autumn]

2. I haven't felt safe since a corrupt supreme court installed

that grifter in the White House. No I do not feel better, no I do not feel safer in fact I feel worse now since I know his shit is here to stay.

[MuseRider]

4. What would have made me feel better

was if the current administration had done something to control it or better yet not use it and change the rules to make it all legal.

I never in a million years, EVER thought a Democrat could be elected that would continue ANYTHING that unelected grifter did to us.

[HooptieWagon]

5. No doubt the BOG will believe Bush's assurances.

If Bush did it too, its OK then, right?